Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:46:34 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Cc: kuriyama@sky.rim.or.jp, doc@freebsd.org, freebsd-translate@ngo.org.uk, doc-jp@jp.freebsd.org, cvs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FDP Directory Reorganisation Message-ID: <199906162246.PAA02177@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990607233227.A34938@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> (message from Nik Clayton on Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:32:28 %2B0100) References: <19990513211458.B70767@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <19990603195027.A31941@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <37593369.10E2888D@sky.rim.or.jp> <19990607233227.A34938@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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(Note to doc-jp people -- watch crossposting before replying.) * From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Sorry for being late to respond, finally caught up with all the mails since Usenix.... * 4. Fixup the Japanese hierarchy. * * 4.1 Move doc/ja/ to doc/ja_JP.EUC/. Note that an old directory with this * name (but with the contents in the attic) already exists. I'm not * sure if this poses a problem or not. * * 4.2 Create a new doc/ja_JP.EUC/books/ directory. * * 4.3 Move the doc/ja_JP.EUC/handbook/ directory under the new books/ * directory, so you now have doc/ja_JP.EUC/books/handbook/. * * Rename "handbook.sgml" to "book.sgml". * * 4.4 Leave the FAQ where it is, as it hasn't been converted to DocBook * yet. * * 4.5 The Japanese directory hierarchy should look like * * doc * `-- ja_JP.EUC * : |-- books * : | `-- handbook * : |-- FAQ * `-- man I'm still not sure why you want to do this. For one thing, the doc people don't seem to be able to make up their mind what the correct directory name is. First it was ja_JP.EUC, then it was ja. (And that was a very painful transition for the ports team, but you're not suggesting changing where ports install documentation so that is not relevant here.) You are now proposing moving it back to ja_JP.EUC. But just a couple of months ago there was a discussion in one of the Japanese lists where someone proposed changing the official locale name of Japanese EUC to ja_JP.eucJP (or something like that -- I don't remember the capitalization). Most people seemed to agree with that (although nothing happened -- what ever came of that discussion?). My point is that everyone seems to have a different idea as to what is the right directory name, and it's fruitless to keep changing the directory structure depending on who's currently at the top, especially since it doesn't serve any real purpose changing it now. (What's wrong with just using symlinks?) Of course, *IF* and when we have different encodings for various Japanese documents, we can always talk about a reorganization. But until then, I can't see this as anything other than a gratuitous change for the sake of change. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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